weekending

Posted in familyness, i dig music, Kiddie Hangouts, let me let me update ya by ElaineMarie

exhaustingly good amounts of fun time this past weekend. weekend bits:

1. new bird feeder project 2. selfie before the en vogue show 3 & 4. the terribly anticlimactic show that was somehow still tons of fun and i would go again in a heartbeat 5. tried el camino for the first time. thank goodness for healthy, cheap tacos. and i mean CHEAP. 6 & 7. year of the buffalo in-store at vinyl frontier. Mike arranged his first in store and i have to say, he picked a mighty fine band {biased!}. 8. darla worked her magic and made fast friends with the band. they gifted her a copy of their ep and a guitar pick. it’s been our soundtrack in the car ever since. you should check it out. NOW. 9. finished the weekend with a valentine-crafting & pizza party at our friends’.

weekend also included but not pictured: a karaoke session at mickey’s, sunday brunch with lady friends, darla’s introduction to star wars, and cousin hang-time at our place. all normal things like gym, grocery and housecleaning fit in where they could…or not.

i love busy weekends full of life. keep them coming.

25Jan2013

senses

Posted in let me let me update ya, Run Da House, yum yum eat good by ElaineMarie

playing along again with Mary Catherine’s photo exercise. my senses were very pleased this week. i have doubles of a couple categories:

^^^touch^^^

1} that weird way plastic gloves feel really good and really gross at the same time. and the correlating feeling of accomplishment when the dishes are done and the stink sink has been scrubbed. 2} the feeling of laying down in bed for the night and just staring up at the ceiling. ahhhh.

^^^taste^^^

1} thursday was darla’s turn to bring snack at school. we made something especially scrumptious since it was her birthday treat. my trick is: if you like your cookies to be a little moist and soft in the center always bake them in a muffin pan. they turn out thick and moist. ughhh, just typed the word moist twice. a third time! dislike! dislike! 2} my daughter has a more refined taste palette than i. this is her portobello, spinach and goat cheese omelette – on a plate that i made in 1988 as the plate specifically states. i have to admit, the leftovers she didn’t finish were delicious.

^^^sight^^^

the sight of darla reading poetry books on a sunny afternoon. so she told me they were spell books but whatever. in a way, she’s right. bewitch her with your words, mr. whitman.

^^^sound^^^

1} hubster’s music collection. if you’re a regular reader you know we’ve been having lots of dance parties lately thanks to a mirror ball addition to our living room. it’s hard for me to determine if i like the daytime, sunlit parties or the nighttime, disco shine parties better. eff it. they’re both my favorite. 2} our new organ. darla has been happily playing away daily on the newest furniture addition to our already crowded house. i have to admit that i wasn’t too happy when this showed up – since i wasn’t consulted – but i had to let it go and accept that everything can’t be my way. darla loves it and that’s all that matters. besides, i wouldn’t want to deny the world it’s next papa garth because of my silly ideas of room flow.

^^^smell^^^

the smell of the cookies baking was a savior. see, i’ve been making a lot of meals with various beans and legumes lately and this house has been in need of some aromatherapy, if you catch my drift. pun! flatulence pun!

that’s all i got. thanks for checking in to see how my senses did this week. and now for a special announcement: i’m sending you lots of positive energy for a fulfilling and restful weekend. be excellent. all of you.

19Jan2013

senses

Posted in i dig music, let me let me update ya, Run Da House, yum yum eat good, zero waste home by ElaineMarie

i am playing along with the weekly senses photo feature from Mary Catherine’s blog this week.

i am a dreamer. i think big and dream bigger. the problem with this is that i find myself not being satisfied in whatever moment i’m in. i’m living in the future or the past too much. i feel that focusing on this photo exercise put some perspective in my day: if i’m experiencing something nice pertaining to all 5 of my senses in one day then i’m doing alright. i have it pretty good no matter what my ambitions are telling me. I was able to find all these little gratitudes in a span of about 60 minutes:

^^^smell^^^

i’ve been making more of an effort to thoroughly use our fruits and veggies before tossing in the compost. the smell of grapefruit after scrubbing the sink with the leftover peel and the smell of fresh veggie stock helped me connect to our blessings in the nourishment department. (yeah, the pot boiled over. so much for the morning stove wipedown.)

^^^taste^^^

darla and i have a little ritual of scooping out the cream from the top of our freshly opened milk jugs. we get them every other week so it’s a treat to each have a spoonful once in a while. the taste of this week’s spoonful helped me connect to this small part of our life that i hope darla will remember when she is older. just she and her mama sharing fresh cream and feeling it’s a treat every single time.

^^^touch^^^

a touch of warmth is back in the sunshine. so that means it is real sunshine now. the kind that you can feel warm your skin. you can see my pasty white skin drinking in the vitamin d. the feeling of warmth connected me to the promise of springtime and brighter days to come.

^^^sight^^^

the fiendish look of accomplishment my girl makes when she’s sneaked a treat. it’s impossible for me to be irked by her cookiesnatching ways. the sight of this smile makes me grateful time and again.

^^^sounds^^^

this one was a given. mike won tickets to Father John Misty & The Walkmen this week. it has been quite a drought since my last concert so i was feeling very thankful to get back to some live music. also, i am grateful to have a husband that has calling in to radio stations to win tickets down to a science. i missed most of father john misty due to a birthworkers meeting but made it just in time for 2 of my favorite songs so it was ok. have a listen to my fave above.

that’s all friends. hope you continue to have a grand weekend!!!! xoxoxoxo

15Jan2013

weekending

Posted in familyness, let me let me update ya, Run Da House, yum yum eat good by ElaineMarie

other than seeing A Birth Story, my weekend was pretty much contained in my household. i am fine with this because it grossly rained all weekend. i did attend another kickbutt boot camp that has left me sore even today. this is good. sore is the new sexy. pinterest told me that. a few projects from the weekend:

1. a food color and coffee filter bunting project hubster and darla came up with 2. more water infusions. i’ve been experimenting and so far i like cucumber and watermelon the best. wonderfully delicious 3. bread baking attempts. it’s taken me a year to make good on my bread baking resolution but i’m getting in the swing of it. my yeast creations { yes, i just said that } need help, though. anyone have any good recipes? 4. a little project i’m working on for an upcoming weekend.

yeah, that’s pretty much it other than lots of pretending to be harry potter and dance parties.

thanks for catching up with us.

11Jan2013

weeksie

Posted in advantageous adventures, familyness, let me let me update ya, yum yum eat good by ElaineMarie

i felt kinda like getting back to posting some weekly familyness shots. i really miss so many of you friends and i’m sorry i don’t get my correspondence on as often as i’d like. just view our lives broadcasted on the interwebs instead of getting a call form me like normal. right? sarcasm but sadly true. sorry. here’s a bit of our week:

1. mountain instrument concert 2. someone can’t take a bath unless it has food coloring in it. blue bath. 3. two-headed dimple monster 4. mike made some really rad puppets. #hidden talents 5 & 6. a gifted Grumpy Doodle Book saved us at lunchtime. 7. I figure that since the placement of this sign was in an alley { an alley that transports you to a whole different city, beeteedubs } it’s actually referring to heroin instead of refuse. tax dollars well spent.

wishing you a splendid weekend. go get a little funky.

1Jan2013

2.0.1.3.

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sending our best for a rad { really rad } new year!

love, wruckers

21Dec2012

school pic

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wow. school pics ain’t what they used to be. we didn’t even have to choose between lasers or starbursts.

we would have gone with lasers, btw.

2Dec2012

Advent-ageous

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hope you enjoyed the first day of december. hubster pulled the tree out late friday night and we finally set about chrissmafying the house. good times.

here’s just a bit of silly from our week:

darla as a balloon, stretching out the garland and chrismas fail.

19Nov2012

weekending

Posted in familyness, let me let me update ya, yum yum eat good by ElaineMarie

we had a pretty solid weekend around here: boot camp, successful prospective client meeting, our friend joe stayed with us, darla’s first school buddy birthday party, and family photos. and somehow i managed to get a lot done around the house. i love weekends like that.

soooo, working out makes it ok to eat whatever you want, right? burgers, pizza, biscuits and sausage gravy, ice cream and brown betty were all on my menu. i have a feeling it’s not going to get much better for the rest of the year. whatevs. we had some veggie curry and salad and stuff. i think it evens out. yeah.

i’m pretty excited about our family photos this year. looking forward to sending them out in a few weeks.

hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

16Nov2012

weeksie

Posted in advantageous adventures, familyness, let me let me update ya, love and happiness, yum yum eat good by ElaineMarie

i’m writing this as a pretty tired momma on this afternoon. i know to be this tired means i have a lot to be thankful for…

or…

it could mean that burgers are really not a good lunch choice and my decision to attempt going meat and gluten free next year is valid.

anyways, snaps from a week in which there was a lot to be thankful:

thankful for delicious, delicious soft pretzel snacks at north market. equally thankful to have spotted the elusive, unenthusiastic unicorn while we were there.
ps. she did not get any jeni’s while we were there. shame really.

thankful for games and hot chocolate at luck bros to make up for the missed jeni’s opportunity.

thankful for one more week of play opportunity outside

and lastly, i’m thankful to be the one to plait these beautiful braids. even if the subject is quite squirmy and they come out crooked. i’m glad to be the one to do it.

momjeanz

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